Kukla's Korner Hockey

• The Penguins’ fate -- stay in Pitt or leave? -- should be a talking point when owners meet on Thursday. Two key questions: 1. Who’ll be the new owner? 2. What effect will the city’s new 26-year-old mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, have on the franchise?
• Al Ovechkin’s rejection of Washington’s captaincy on the grounds of his English "not being good enough" is amusing. Even as a rookie, The Rapid Russian was amazingly glib. He’s even better now but we respect his desire to get another year or two of conversation under his belt before turning vocal leader. Maybe his decision is based on the fact that he just had his wisdom teeth taken out!